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Moving from web to field, from Victorian parlor to 21st-century mall, the 15 essays gathered here yield new insights regarding the intersection of local culture, musical creativity and technological possibilities. Inspired by the concept of "technoculture," the authors locate technology squarely in the middle of expressive culture: they are concerned with how technology culturally informs and infuses aspects of everyday life and musical experience, and they argue that this merger does not necessarily result in a "cultural grayout," but instead often produces exciting new possibilities. In this collection, we find evidence of musical practices and ways of knowing music that are informed or even significantly transformed by new technologies, yet remain profoundly local in style and meaning.

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Simon Frith

"This book sets out to make technology an issue for ethnomusicology, but its value lies in the variety of ethno approaches it brings to technology. Detail, surprise, and the pleasure of scholarship--this is musicology of society at its best."
— Simon Frith, author of Performing Rites: On the Value of Popular Music

Simon Frith

“This book sets out to make technology an issue for ethnomusicology, but its value lies in the variety of ethno approaches it brings to technology. Detail, surprise, and the pleasure of scholarship—this is musicology of society at its best."

Gage Averill

“After Music and Technoculture, scholars will have no excuse to treat music technology as neutral or impartial or as anything less than a powerful transformation of consciousness, musical meaning, and value. This volume will shape research paradigms over the coming decades.”

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"This book sets out to make technology an issue for ethnomusicology, but its value lies in the variety of ethno approaches it brings to technology. Detail, surprise, and the pleasure of scholarship - this is musicology of society at its best.

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Meet the Author

RENÉ T.A. LYSLOFF is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of California, Riverside. LESLIE C. GAY, JR. is Associate Professor and Coordinator of Musicology at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. ANDREW ROSS is Director of the American Studies Program at New York University.

Table of Contents

Chapter One
Intoduction: Ethnomusicology in the Twenty-first Centure - Rene T. A. Lysloff and Leslie C. Gay, Jr.
Chapter Two
Musical Life in Softcity: An Internet Ethnography - Rene T. A. Lysloff
Chapter Three
A Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery: Trnsitional Music Sampling and Enigma's "Return to Innocence" - Timothy D. Taylor
Chapter Four
"Ethnic Sounds": The Economy and Discourse of the Wold Music Sampling - Paul Theberge
Chapter Five
Technology and the Prayer in Singapore - Tong Soon Lee
Chapter Six
Plugged in at Home: Vietnamese American Technoculture in Orange County - Deborah Wong
Chapter Seven
Technology and Identity In Colobian Popular Music:Tecno-macondismo in Carlos Vives's Approach to Vallenato - Janet L. Sturman
Chapter Eight
The Nature/Technology Binary Opposition Dismantled in the Music of Madonna and Bjork - Charity Marsh and Melissa West
Chapter Nine
Before the Deluge: The Technoculture of Song-Sheet Publishing Viewed from Late-Niniteenth-Century Gavelston - Leslie G. Gay, Jr.
Chapter Ten
Stretched from Manhattan's Back Alley to MOMA: A Social History of Magnetic Tape and Recording - Matthew Malsky
Chapter Eleven
Tails Out: Social Phenomenolgy and the Ethnographic Representation of Technology in Music Making - Thomas G. Porcello
Chapter Twelve
"There's not a problem I can't fix, 'cause I can do it in the mix" : On the Performative Technoloy of 12-Inch Vinyl - Kai Fikentscher
Chapter Thirteen
Sounds Like the Mall of America: Programmed Music and the Architectonics of Commercial Space - Jonathan Sterne
Chapter Fourteen
Consuming Audio: An Introduction to Tweak Theory - Marc Perlman
Chapter Fifteen
Fairly Used: Negativeland's U2 and the Precarious Practice of Acoustic Appropriation - David Sanjek
Afterword: Back to Basics with the Roland - Andrew Ross
List of Contributors
Index

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